gda-dev2 r17071

[Charles Day]

On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:

> Quoting Charles Day <cedayiv at gmail.com>:
>
>  If this is true then it's a bug.   "make install" should most certainly
> > > update the installed copy of a .scm file.
> > >
> > >
> > What seems to happen in my environment (Windows XP) is that initially
> > all
> > the .scm files get copied from the source repository
> > (/c/soft/gnucash/repos)
> > to the build tree (/c/soft/gnucash/build). Then 'make install' (actually
> > make_install.sh on XP) copies them from the build tree to the install
> > tree
> > (/c/soft/gnucash/inst). However, if I update a .scm file in the
> > repository,
> > doing 'make' will not cause the updated version to get copied to the
> > build
> > tree, so 'make install' still installs the old version.
> >
> > Of course, if I blow away the build tree and start over, everything
> > operates
> > as expected but that takes too long. So I usually just manually install
> > my
> > updated .scm files and restart GnuCash.
> >
>
> AHHH!  Yes, the "Win32 doesn't support Symlinks" problem.   Arguably
> on win32 we really should re-copy the scheme files on every make.
>
> Sorry, I keep forgetting that you actually do real gnucash development
> on Windows!  I keep thinking that all the devs use Linux. ;)
>

Let me know when Linux runs Adobe Premiere or Final Cut. ;)


>  -Charles
> >
>
> -derek
>
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